Historic Variants
Many of the ancestors of modern tables games are no longer widely played.
- Irish, 16th and 17th century British game; directly ancestral to Backgammon.
- Games described in the 13th century Libro de los juegos:
- Doublets
- El Mundo
- Imperator
- Seven-sided backgammon
- Six, Deuce, and Ace
- Tabula, 2nd century Roman game.
- Ludus duodecim scriptorum, Roman game dating back to the 2nd century B.C.
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